This page is part of a list of original releases by release
date of international commercially-released regular stereo Dylan albums.
They do not contain rarities or obscurities and are not eligible for the Searching For A Gem
list. Nevertheless, their interest value or scarcity means they're worth listing
here - as far as I know some are not included on any other Internet site. Promo
releases of regular albums are now listed here and no longer in the former
yearly Promo sections.

If you have any entries to add to the list or additions/corrections to
existing entries, please let me know!
Please note I cannot value your Dylan rarities -
see the Mission page for reasons why. Contact the
dealers on my Trading page for assistance!

This release was much delayed, the concerts with The Grateful Dead took place in
Jul 1987. A bootleg version with a very different track selection circulates amongst
Dylan fans, supposedly compiled by Jerry García of the Grateful Dead (copy shown
on left is Moonlight Records ML 9636, 1996). Bob is
reported to have selected tracks that had not had live versions released before
over tracks with musical merit!

Thanks to Lars M. Banke and Manuel
García Jara for information that Dylan & The Dead was not released in
Yugoslavia, South Africa or Zimbabwe.

The commercial copy shown is sealed, with a black sticker with red and
white text promoting three of the live tracks. The promo copy shown has a
black sticker with red and white text promoting the Dylan/Dead
collaboration and a gold promo stamp over the barcode. The record
is in a picture inner sleeve and has red Columbia labels. The promo record has handwritten matrix numbers:
Side 1 - PAL 45056-1A DMM, Side 2 - PBL- 45056-1D DMM.

Orhun Yakin from Turkey has an export copy in a
standard Columbia US sleeve, with red ring-shaped "FIRST CHOICE" stickers
on the record labels hiding the ring of Columbia logos. I have not seen
another copy with such stickers, and have not been able to find out
anything about the importers. Dylan & The Dead was not released in
Turkey on vinyl, although there was a cassette release (not yet shown).

Thanks to Hans Seegers for
information and to Gerd Rundel and Orhun Yakin for further information and scans.

Both the sleeve and the record of this release were made in
Canada. The record has the same printed inner sleeve as the US release, and
has red Columbia labels with a ring of yellow logos round the circumference.
The record of the copy shown has handwritten matrix numbers: Side 1 -
AL-45056 1A 5GZ, Side 2 - BL-45056 1A 5GZ.

This release was made in England, the sleeve was printed by Shorewood
Packaging Co. Ltd. The front sleeve has a red sticker with yellow text promoting
three tracks from the album. This album has the same inner sleeve as the Dutch, Greek and Australian
releases shown below except for the detail shown on the rear. The record has
red late-1980s/1990s style CBS labels with handwritten matrix numbers: Side 1 - 4633811 A1,
Side 2 - 4633811-B1.

This album has the same inner sleeve as the UK
release above except for the detail shown on the rear. The record has
red late-1980s/1990s style CBS labels with matrix numbers: Side 1 - 01 463381 20 1A1,
Side 2 - 01 - 463381 -20- 1B1. Patrick Helfrich, Ronald Born and Hanns Peter Bushoff also have copies in
the Dutch outer sleeve and a white inner sleeve where the record was manufactured in the former
German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in the Amiga pressing plant in
Potsdam-Babelsberg for sale in the
East German Intershop "hard currency" shops. The records of all
these copies have simpler matrix numbers: Side 1
- 463 381 1A, Side 2 - 463 381 2A. Scans required!

Dylan And The Dead was the last Spanish Dylan album manufactured
by CBS itself. The next record, Oh Mercy, and all subsequent Spanish
vinyl releases were made for CBS by Tecnodisco SA. The outer and inner
sleeves were printed by Offset ALG, Madrid.
The record has red CBS labels and the matrix numbers of the copy shown are:
Side 1 - 463381-1A, Side 2 - 463381-1B.

This album was manufactured in Greece for Diski CBS. The rear sleeve has a
copyright credit to "The Grateful Dead Productions Inc." as well as "CBS Inc.".
The record has red CBS labels with English and Greek text. On the rear sleeve it
looks as if the symbols below the barcode have been blacked out.

The Israeli version of this album includes a double-sided insert identical
to the inner sleeve included in other countries' releases. The record has red
CBS labels. The records of both Hans Seegers' and Manuel García Jara's copies
have matrix numbers: Side 1 - 01 463381 20 1A (stamped) HP ISRAEL (handwritten),
Side 2 - 01 463381 20 B1 (stamped) HP ISRAEL (handwritten).

Thanks to Hans Seegers for
information and to Manuel García Jara for further information and scans.

This album had a white sticker with red text on the front of the
sleeve. The record comes in a picture inner sleeve and has
orange/yellow CBS labels. The copy shown has a gold promo stamp on
the rear of the sleeve. This album was also imported into New
Zealand.

As well as the card insert, this album has a paper
insert that reproduces the LP's inner sleeve reduced in size. The cassette
is white with orange CBS/Sony paper labels. CBS/Sony did not release the
album on cassette in Japan, but on CD only, see below.

This release was manufactured in the Philippines by OctoArts
International, Inc., for CBS Records. The front sleeve has the names of four tracks listed
along
the top edge. The rear sleeve has a barcode at top right. The record has orange
CBS labels.

This release came with an insert and a plain inner sleeve, while in many
countries (as Greece and Australia above) there was a picture inner sleeve with the insert design. The
record has orange/yellow Discos CBS labels. Sergio Mariano Romay has a promo
copy with the same front sleeve, insert and record labels as the commercial
copy. The rear sleeve has a gold embossed CBS promo sticker, and also a record
station library sticker at top right.

I wrongly reported on this page that
there was no release of this album in Argentina - this is it!
The front sleeve has at top
right the Columbia logo with two catalogue numbers: the Argentinean (70.077)
and European (1-463381) and also has added yellow text "BOB DYLAN AND THE
GRATEFUL DEAD". The rear sleeve shows the picture of the wagon but in
monochrome. The song titles are translated into Spanish. At bottom rear is
the Columbia logo plus the two catalogue numbers; at bottom centre is a
circle with the legend “La copia de cassettes no autorizada está matando la
musica grabada. Además, es de
inferior calidad.
CBS, la compañía de la música [The unauthorised copying of cassettes is
killing recorded music. Also, it is of inferior quality. CBS, the music
company]”; At bottom right is the information that this LP is also released
on cassette, with the catalogue number "170.077", see below.

The record labels are orange
with Columbia logos in a ring, but very poorly printed, so that “INDUSTRIA
ARGENTINA [MADE IN ARGENTINA]” in the circumference text is impossible to read.
The song titles are again translated into Spanish. The record has handwritten
matrix numbers: Side 1 - 70.077/A. Side 2 - 70.077/B. At this time, with vinyl
losing the long play battle to compact disc in Argentina, these very limited
editions were of poor quality: the vinyl was very thin (only 115 gms) and the
sleeves were thin and brittle. That’s why it is very difficult to find copies in
good condition after 25 years.

This Columbia cassette release comes
in a black plastic "CBS" outer case, and also has "CBS" on the leader tape. It
has a folded insert with the Columbia logo, which is also on both sides of the
cassette. As on the vinyl release, the song titles are translated into Spanish
on both the insert and the cassette, with the English titles on the inside of
the insert only. The cassette itself is buff, with red text printed directly on
to it, there are no paper labels.

This release is exactly the same as the regular CD, but with a picture
disc. The jewel case has no front insert, and the rear insert is a
monochrome design with the text "DEMONSTRATION - NOT FOR SALE",
different from the regular rear insert.

Thanks to Harold Lepidus for
information and Franck Faugere for the scans.

This
promo CD has a black, red and
white obi with
yellow, white and black text. The
release date is shown as "E-3-1" (1 Mar 1989) - see
International Album Releases
(Regular Albums) for information on Japanese alphabetic year codes.
The original obi has the price
¥2,500 without sales tax. The replacement obi shows two prices:
¥2,280 without sales tax and ¥2,348
including sales tax
(sales tax was introduced in Japan in mid-1989). Copies of CBS/Sony
25DP5402 with the ¥2,500 obi are therefore much rarer. This was the last
Japanese Dylan album to be released in the "25DP" series because the
catalogue numbering system was changed after the introduction of sales
tax, while at the same time regular CD prices were reduced from ¥2,500 to
¥2,348 to stimulate sales.

The copy shown is a promo, with a promo panel on the rear insert and
Japanese characters indicating a promo on the clear centre of the CD. The
front insert was a 32-page stapled booklet in English and Japanese.

Thanks to Hans Seegers for initial information and to Wil Gielen for
further information and scans.

Columbia/Sony Music 88697082282
(Austria for Europe) - inside of digipak unfolded
with CD

Columbia/Sony Music 88697082282
(Austria for Europe) - inside of digipak unfolded
without CD showing picture under tray - inside of US release is the same

Columbia/Sony Music 88697082282
(Austria for Europe) - centre of booklet unfolded
- inside of US release is the same

Columbia/Sony Music 88697082282
(Austria for Europe) - rear of digipak

Columbia/Sony Music
88697082282 (Austria for Europe) - CD

Columbia/Sony Music
88697082282 (Austria for Europe) - detail of CD

Columbia/Sony Music
88697082282 (Austria for Europe) - detail of outside of digipak

Columbia/Sony Music
88697082282 (Austria for Europe) - detail of rear of digipak

The limited edition of this remastered release comes in
a digipak which will be replaced by the standard CD jewel case release when
reprinted. The front of the digipak has a release-specific limited edition
yellow sticker with black text. There is an 8-page stapled booklet and both this
and the digipak contain new photographs. The CD reproduces the 1970s style
Columbia US record labels.

The four 2009
remasters were released in Japan not in digipaks but in mini-LP cardboard
sleeves reproducing the US initial release with the original CBS/Sony Japan
obi. In this case that is theColumbia
OC 45056 sleeve
and CBS/Sony 25DP 5402 obi.
There is an 8-page stapled booklet in English, a 20-page stapled booklet in
English and Japanese, and the CD is in a paper inner sleeve. There is a
black sticker which is not attached to the shrink-wrap but loose inside the
sleeve.

Thanks to Sonny Boy McFitzson
for information and to Wil Gielen for further information and scans.

This massive set is the latest in a series of "Complete Columbia Album
Collections" featuring artists such as Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Duke
Ellington, Dave Brubeck and even Blue Oyster Cult. The CD version of the set includes 41 Dylan albums in card
sleeves, 14 of which have been remastered for this project, plus a 2CD set
of previously released non-album tracks entitled
Side Tracks. The albums exclude all compilations and
The Bootleg Series sets, but do include the deleted 1973 Dylan album,
also see 1973, and the extra 2CD set
Side Tracks includes one side of the 1971 single George
Jackson (Acoustic version),
R-0085, see 1971. The set is
therefore listed in 2013.
The set also includes a hard cover book with extensive new liner notes and
previously unseen photos.

All the CDs come in card sleeves. The European sleeves are made of thicker
card than the US sleeves, but they are otherwise identical, so are not shown.
The catalogue number on the sleeve is "88691924312JK30"
plus "DISC 34". The CDs are different in detail, the US
Dylan And The Dead CD has
catalogue number "88691924312D34", whereas
the European CD has catalogue number "88691924312-34". The European CD was made in the EU (probably Austria).
The US and European copyright details are printed at the bottom of the Bob Dylan CDs,
and round the circumference for The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan onwards, so I
haven't shown them for the later CDs.

Thanks to Sonny Boy McFitzson and Éamonn Ó Catháin for news that The Complete Album Collection
will be released in Japan in four decade-related parts, with
the intention to release them all in 2014.The Blu-Spec CD2
specification CDs come in card sleeves with printed inner sleeves and "SONY
MUSIC" instead of "COLUMBIA" on the discs. Bob's 1980s albums from
Saved to Oh Mercy will be released in Japan
on 27 Aug 2014 in card sleeves as Blu-Spec CD2 discs
numbered Sony Music SICP 30571 to SICP
30579.
The 2013 remastered
Dylan & The Dead
is SICP 30578, more details will be added when available.

The five CDs are housed in a cardboard slipcase and each
album is in a card sleeve similar to those in The Complete Album Collection
Vol. One above, but without title or catalogue numbers on the spines.
The European version, also sold in Australia and New Zealand, has a
different catalogue number and artwork. The slipcase and discs of Stuart
Moore's copy were made in Australia.

Thanks to Tim Dunn, Fred Muller and Stuart Moore for information
and scans.